Word: chorales
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...darn brown? As in Les Miz, earth tones predominate here--except in the peasants' garb, nicely creased and Rinso white. One thing about these villagers: they've all seen Riverdance; Bob Avian's choreography has the heavy-footed agility of that hit Irish dance show. The choral harmonies do have a vaulting magnificence, as 30 or so voices pump out Schonberg's anthems. But director Declan Donnellan (who, for his own Cheek by Jowl troupe, staged a superb As You Like It) can't make the drama sing. Guerre is big; it should have been grand...
...valuable as that class was, it is not enough. Chamber music is only one part of the vast musical canon. At Harvard, because of concentration and other Core requirements, I will not take a class on symphonies, opera or choral works, and I will be the poorer...
Nevertheless, we had good times. Mine included rehearsing the "Brahms Requiem" with the Radcliffe Choral Society, the Harvard Glee Club and the BSO; hanging out with some fairly pretentious literary types (among whom I include myself) in Eliot House getting high--I kid you not--on conversation and strong tea made in a samovar; attending a harmless little riot on Garden Street following an alleged robbery by Harvard boys on Radcliffe's dorms; helping to found Pro Tem, which was, as its Latin announced, an interim war-time magazine. Our advisor was Mark Schorer, then teaching English at Harvard...
Director of Choral Activities Jameson N. Marvin--who has been conducting all the choirs simultaneously this year--will share some of the responsibilities for administrative work and conducting with the new associate director...
Dean of Students Harry R. Lewis '68 wrote yesterday in an e-mail message that he thought the rotation of the conductors would help to keep choral activities at Harvard "lively and energetic...